# Acts 10:33

> So I sent for you immediately, and you were kind enough to come. Now then, we are all here in the presence of God to listen to everything the Lord has instructed you to tell us.”

— Acts 10:33, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Caesarea** (Judea · today Caesarea Maritima) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/caesarea

## When

- c. AD 40-44 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 11:28 announces the famine of Claudius's reign, which Tacitus (Annals XII.43) and Josephus (Antiquities XX.2) put in AD 46-48.

## Who ruled

- **Caligula**, emperor of Rome, AD 37-41 · Source: Suetonius, Caligula; Josephus, Antiquities XVIII-XIX
- **Claudius**, emperor of Rome, AD 41-54 · Source: Suetonius, Claudius; Tacitus, Annals XI-XII
- **Herod Agrippa I**, king of Judea, AD 41-44 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XVIII.6-XIX.8, which dates his death to AD 44

## What happened

- **Cornelius receives the Spirit** (AD 40)
  A Roman officer and his household receive the Spirit before any Jewish rite. It is the decision the church spends the next chapters trying to understand.

## See also

- Galatians 4:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/galatians/4/14
- James 1:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/james/1/19
- Deuteronomy 5:25-29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/deuteronomy/5/25
- 2 Chronicles 30:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/30/12
- Proverbs 1:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/1/5
- Proverbs 9:9-10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/9/9
- Proverbs 25:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/proverbs/25/12
- Matthew 18:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/18/4

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/10/33
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/10
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).